I think they were TECHNICALLY broke, as in their liabilities massively outweighed their assets at that particular point in time. It was mostly because they had massive legal bills from all their legal troubles while in office.

Which isn't exactly a great thing to be running on. "We were TECHNICALLY broke when we left office because of all the legal troubles we had -- you know, Bill porking every intern he could get his hands on and stuff!"

But obviously they could easily go make a bazillion dollars from speaking engagements and books, which they did, so now they're rich.

WHY the hell she wants to be President I honestly don't know... God knows Chelsea will inherit a whole lot less if she wins.

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Leaving aside for a brief moment how utterly farcical it is to use ‘struggle’ and ‘houses; in the same sentence, the notion that the Clintons were presented in their post-presidency with anything other than a license to print money is unyielding in its abject hilarity. By 2001, Bill Clinton had made $200,000 per annum for eight years while paying nothing toward his housing or upkeep, and, in addition to the extraordinarily lucrative speaking gigs that American ex-presidents are now to expect, he had a lifetime of pensions and benefits to look forward to. (David Graham points out that, in the last 14 years, he has received nearly $16 million from the government.) By the end of the year in which he left office, the couple had made $16 million and enjoyed between $5 and $30 million in assets. By 2004, they had $50 million to their names. And by 2014, Clinton had become the highest-earning former president in America’s history, with net assets of nearly $200 million. Being smart sorts, the couple knew full well that this was coming, which is why in 1999, with their apparently destructive legal bills still racking up, they bought a $6 million house in Chappaqua, N.Y., so that Hillary could legally run for the Senate. One suspects that if the Clintons had been genuinely worried that their legal fights might bankrupt them, they would not have done this, nor would friend Terry McAuliffe have agreed to loan them $1.3 million toward its purchase.”